On Thursday Bruce starts the show with news of the death
overnight of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch.

Dame Elisabeth was “a unique and certainly indomitable
figure” according to Rupert Murdoch Biographer Michael Wolff, who goes on to
say she refused to meet Wendi Deng. “Both
mother and son had to come to terms with the fact that neither was going to
bend to the other,” Michael says.

Federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek tells
Bruce that the State Government is to blame for planned funding reductions to Victorian
hospitals because it has failed to provide required information. State Health Minister David Davis disagrees.